Tuesday, December 10, 2013

A water park was built in the 1980's to look like the 1950's and
abandoned in the 2000's so there was a creepy aura in the air of a
failed American Dream that once stood there.

The scenery was blessed
with Trustocorp's installations prior to our arrival and had conveyed
the dismantled dream perfectly through their placement and execution as
they manipulated the old billboards into their own style.

Friday, November 22, 2013

“5 pointz is gone,” reads this update on
the aerosol institution’s Twitter. “Painted white overnight by the
owner with police protection.” Pillowy white botches can now be seen
spotting the building, covering up roughly 80% of the exterior pieces.

Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork

Formerly referred to as the Phun Phactory, the massive building in
Long Island City has operated as a legal graffiti playground for nearly
two decades, giving writers a safe space to practice and showcase their
skills. The owner of the property announced in 2011 that it would be
demolished and turned into a sprawling residential complex, sparking a
legal battle and outcry by artists.

In addition to allowing artists to spray paint the exterior with
their vibrant names, characters and murals — making it visible from the 7
Train — the building also housed numerous studios for artists.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Usually, it is the graffiti artists who work under the cover of
darkness, hoping to evade police detection as they scrawl a tag on
property that is not their own.

But on Monday night, it was the owner of a building in Queens who used a
crew of painters to work overnight and paint over graffiti on a
warehouse in Long Island City, wiping clean a canvas that was used by
thousands of artists over the years to transform an otherwise
nondescript, abandoned brick building in a working-class neighborhood
into 5Pointz, a mecca for street artists from around the world.

By Tuesday morning, the work of some 1,500 artists had been wiped clean,
the Brobdingnagian bubble letters and the colorful cartoons spray
painted on the building’s brick walls all covered in a fresh coat of
white paint.

“We are supposed to be the vandals, but this is the biggest rag and
disrespect in the history of graffiti,” said Marie Cecile Flageul, an
unofficial curator for 5Pointz.

1st place - NAPPER - Philippines: perfect combination between the theme of the battle
and the letters. The artist took inspiration by the recent super typhoon that struck his nation. Our thoughtgoes toall the victims.

2nd place - SICK - Israel: awesome illustration perfectly integrated with the rest of the piece,
tough letters, perfect use of colors and very creative
concept! This is a talented and skilled artist!

3rd place - SAYTONE - Italy: Original letters and well drawn characters.It representswell the themeof the battle.

Submission- Send your sketch to this e-mail address: sendgraffsketch@live.com
- Rename the file of the photo name with YOUR TAG and the provenience (optional) (e.g. REVOK from USA)

- ONLY ONE sketch per person.

- All sketches have to be to a certain standard to be posted (it means we'll upload only best sketches). We are sorry about this decision, but we get hundreds of sketches and we can't upload all of them. And please, DON'T ASK us when or if your work will be uploaded.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

It’s a case of graffiti cannibalism. The stencil of a young girl
frightened by a rat, presumably painted by British street art star Banksy on North Villere Street near Basin Street in 2008, has been ruined by a routine tag.

Banksy's 2008 stencil of a girl frightened by a rat has been blotted out by a graffiti tag.
(Doug MacCash / NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)

It’s impossible to attribute the 2008 stencils to Banksy with absolute
certainty, since the internationally acclaimed artist sometimes operates
on the wrong side of the law and cherishes his anonymity. But most
onlookers agree Banksy clandestinely used several New Orleans outdoor
locations as canvases during the approach of Hurricane Gustav five years
ago.

Many of his cartoons sensitively addressed the city’s struggle to
recover from Hurricane Katrina and the 2005 flood. Most are now defaced or destroyed.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Frightening
evidence of how lax our airport security has become is provided by an
incident near Los Angeles, where a parked private jet airplane was
tagged by a graffiti artist vandal. Russ Niles of AVweb reports:

Los
Angeles World Airports has confirmed an unusual incident of aircraft
vandalism at Van Nuys Airport earlier this week. A Learjet was tagged
with some elaborate graffiti, which would have taken the "artist" some
time to complete. Paint work to obliterate the freedom of expression
(which includes what
may be the tagger's signature) will cost in the tens of thousands of
dollars and there will undoubtedly be a thorough inspection of the rest
of the plane. What's not clear is how the spray-can wielding perpetrator
penetrated the defenses of one of the U.S.'s busiest business aviation
airports. Diana Sanchez, public and community relations director for the
airport organization told AVweb they're looking into it.

Monday, July 8, 2013

Jerry Wokoff wants to tear down 5POINTZ and replace it for ritzy condos.
5POINTZ Aerosol Art Center is so important to the people of Queens and
graffiti/street artists around the world. 5POINTZ is the Mecca of all
graffiti/street art and must be saved for future generations to love,
enjoy and have a place to experiment and show their art talent to the
world. Please sign our petition in helping to save 5POINTZ and all
graffiti/street art to become a larger part of our world and society.
5POINTZ is just not a building covered in graffiti, it is the Mecca of
graffiti/street art, it holds events, such as weddings, dances, art
shows and etc. Please follow us on Twitter @Save5POINTZ and find us on
Facebook at Saving 5POINTZ Aerosol Art Center. Now what's more important
to a community, condos or an art center?

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Pablito Zago for the street art & music festival K-Live in Sète (south of France).
He has done this wall in the center of the town, close from the boats and the sea. Special big up for all the organisation of the K-Live Festival!

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

"Very Nearly Almost is a leading urban art magazine, which features
in-depth articles and interviews with some of the world’s best urban
artists, illustrators and photographers. When we where given the
opportunity to advertise in VNA issue 22, we wanted to showcase our
creative services in a fun way. Playing on our tag line, we mixed up
illustration, graffiti art and traditional signwriting skills within the
design; we then hand painted the ad very large on the side of our
studio, before photographing it for use in the magazine."Soulful Creative

Streetartandgraffiti.blogspot.com is not going to exhort the illegal writing, but shows only a preexisting phenomenon.The artists's material is sent to us in anonymous form. We hold the right to be contacted by the artists in presence of copyrighted photos or in case of recommendations.